Cologne-based industrialtech company United Manufacturing Hub has secured €5 million in funding led by KOMPAS VC to scale its industrial data platform and improve real-time factory data integration.
- Launched in 2021 by Christian Proch, Jeremy Theocharis, and Alexander Krüger, United Manufacturing Hub (UMH) is an industrial data management company that connects factory machines, sensors, and IT systems into a single, real-time data architecture called the Unified Namespace. '
- The platform centralizes and standardizes heterogeneous factory data, enabling applications such as analytics, monitoring, energy optimization, and AI-driven use cases without the need for custom point-to-point integrations.
- It works by collecting, cleaning, and contextualizing data from operational and information technology systems, creating a single source of truth that can be accessed across the factory and enterprise.
"UMH is the foundation we wished existed. Open-source. Community-centric and product-first. We're not building data infrastructure for its own sake. We're cutting the time it takes to actually improve production. In Europe and everywhere else," explains Alexander Krüger, co-founder of UMH.
Details of the deal
- The round was led by KOMPAS VC, with participation from seed + speed Ventures, Sustainable Future Ventures, Archimedes New Ventures, and industry angels Jan Oberhauser and Jeff Hammerbacher.
- United Manufacturing Hub plans to use the fresh €5 million funding to strengthen its open-source platform, accelerate product development, and expand capabilities, including broader connectivity, advanced data modeling, and AI agents for factories.
